[GRASS-dev] d.rast.edit in wxgrass

[Michael Barton]

I'm happy with semicolons, but want to know if everyone else is. Newlines
won't work. A newline (hitting enter/return from the keyboard) causes the
command to be parsed.

Michael


On 7/4/07 2:08 AM, "Hamish" <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Michael wrote:
>>>> 2nd splitting that allows for multiple d.* commands to be separated
>>>> by semi-colons. This may or may not be a good idea in the end, but
>>>> I thought I'd see how it worked out.
> Paul:
>>> Shell uses semi-colons. But you could you not just enter the two
>>> commands separately one after the other? I suppose if it was
>>> something that would take a long time to draw then that would be
>>> slow.
> Michael:
>> The problem is that you need a defined separator that indicates where
>> one command AND its arguments stop and another one starts. You could
>> perhaps look for another "d." string, but a defined separator is
>> easier to use and perhaps more reliable.
> 
> If you don't like semi-colons, would the newline char work?
> 
> 
> Hamish

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